Java Using Saxparser results in exception thrown

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CODE:\[code\]public void parse(byte[] payload){ try { SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser(); DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() { boolean eid = false; boolean msg_id = false; boolean date_time = false; boolean temp = false; public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException { if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("eid")) { eid = true; } if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("msg_id")) { msg_id = true; } if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("date_time")) { date_time = true; } if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("temperature")) { temp = true; } } public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) throws SAXException { if (eid) { XMLMessagePacket.this.eid = new String(ch, start, length); eid = false; } if (msg_id) { XMLMessagePacket.this.msgId = new String(ch, start, length); msg_id = false; } if (date_time) { XMLMessagePacket.this.time = new String(ch, start, length); date_time = false; } if (temp) { XMLMessagePacket.this.temperature.parseDouble(new String(ch, start, length)); temp = false; } } }; saxParser.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(payload), handler); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }}\[/code\]XML\[code\]<?xml version="1.0"?><event> <eid>345345</eid> <msg_id>3242</msg_id> <date_time>11342345</date_time> <temperature>100</temperature></event>\[/code\]Problem:org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.